The social history of Nova Scotia Province

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Africville: Urban Removal in Canada

By Pamela Brown, 2 December 1996. Africville was a black community within the city of Halifax. Tucked away in a corner of the city, relatively invisible, and thought of as a shack town, Africville was a depressed community both in physical and socio-economic terms.